1. Michael Hugh Mosley was a British television and radio journalist, producer, presenter and writer who worked for the BBC from 1985 until his death.
26 Facts About Michael Mosley
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Michael Mosley presented television programmes on biology and medicine and regularly appeared on The One Show.
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Michael Mosley died on the Greek island of Symi on 5 June 2024.
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Michael Hugh Mosley was born in Calcutta, India, on 22 March 1957, the son of Arthur Daryl Alexander George "Bill" Mosley and Joan Stewart.
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Michael Mosley had an older brother and a younger brother and sister.
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Michael Mosley's father was a banker born in George Town, Penang, of partly Armenian descent.
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Michael Mosley's maternal grandfather, Arthur Dudley Stewart, was an Anglican priest and Principal of St Paul's College, Hong Kong, born to Irish missionary parents in China.
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Michael Mosley attended boarding school in England from the age of seven.
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Michael Mosley then decided to move into medicine, intending to become a psychiatrist, and studied at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School.
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Michael Mosley became disillusioned with psychiatry after a placement in the specialty during his degree course, and decided not to practise medicine after passing his final examinations in 1985.
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Michael Mosley described himself as "quite religious" until around the age of 20 and considered becoming a priest.
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Michael Mosley was a joint executive producer for a number of science programmes, including programmes with Robert Winston, The Human Face presented by John Cleese, and the 2004 BBC Two engineering series Inventions That Changed the World hosted by Jeremy Clarkson.
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Michael Mosley went on to present numerous programmes for TV, including Blood and Guts, The Story of Science, Make Me, and Trust Me, I'm a Doctor.
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In 2011, Michael Mosley made a series titled The Brain: A Secret History on the history of psychology and neuroscience.
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Michael Mosley presented a two-part documentary, Frontline Medicine, in 2011, with episodes titled "Survival" and "Rebuilding Lives".
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In 2021, Michael Mosley presented a three-part series, Lose a Stone in 21 Days, for Channel 4.
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Michael Mosley presented the series Just One Thing on BBC Radio 4, in which each episode explored a single action a person could take to improve their health.
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Michael Mosley promoted intermittent fasting and was a low-carbohydrate diet advocate.
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Michael Mosley was credited with popularising a form of intermittent fasting called the 5:2 diet through an episode of the BBC documentary series Horizon called "Eat, Fast and Live Longer".
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Michael Mosley advocated The Fast 800 Diet, a low-carbohydrate Mediterranean diet with intermittent fasting that follows a daily 800-calorie eating plan.
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Michael Mosley was named Medical Journalist of the Year in 1995 by the British Medical Association.
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In 2002, Michael Mosley was nominated for an Emmy as an executive producer for The Human Face with John Cleese.
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In 2017, Michael Mosley was awarded an honorary doctorate of Science by the University of Edinburgh.
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Michael Mosley was a general practitioner until her retirement in 2022; they had met at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School and had a daughter and three sons.
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On 5 June 2024, Michael Mosley went missing on the Greek island of Symi while on holiday with his wife.
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Michael Mosley left St Nikolas beach to walk to Symi Town, approximately two miles away, where they were staying.